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H. O. OHIVERS.

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HERBERT CALEB OHIVERS, OF TECUMSEH, KANSAS.

GATE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 392,718, dated November 13, 1888.

Application filed February 23, 1888. Serial No. 264,892. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, HERBERT CALEB CHIV- ERS, a citizen of the United States, residing at Tecumseh, in the county of Shawnee and State of Kansas, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Gates, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in gates; and it consists in certain novel features hereinfter described and claimed.

1n the accompanying drawings, which fully illustrate myinvention, Figure l is aperspective view of a gate embodying my improvements. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the gate, showing it lowered in full lines and raised in dotted lines. Fig. 3 is an end view of the latch, the gate being shown in section; and Fig. 4 is a detail View of the handle.

teferring to the drawings by letter, A designates a double or bifurcated post set at one side of the road, and B B designate two parallel posts set at the other side of the road and extending to a considerable height, as shown.

The gate 0 is pivoted at one end between the lower portions of the posts B B, and its free end,whcn lowered, rests in the bifurcation of the post A.

The gate is pivoted by means of a shaft, D,

journaled in bearings in the sides of the posts B B, as shown. In rear of its pivotal point the gate is provided with an enlarged boxing, E, in which I place counterbalancing-weights; or the weights may, if so desired, be secured directly to the end bars of the gate and the boxing thus dispensed with. Near the upper ends of the bars B B, I secure the cross-bar F, extending to both sides thereof along the line of the roadway, as shown. To the ends of the cross-bar F, I pivot the operating-levers G, the outer ends of which are provided with the depending handles H, which are secured to the levers by ball-and-socket joints, as most clearly shown in Fig. 5. The inner ends of the levers work in keepers or guides I, secured to the posts B B at the upper ends of the same, and are connected to the lower part of the gate by means of the connecting-rods J. These connecting-rods have their lower ends connected to the ends of the forwardly-extending arms of the angle-levers K, mounted on the opposite sides of the bottom rail of the gate. Thelower ends of theseangle-levers are connected to a transverse bolt, L, extending beneath the bot tom rail of the gate,and on this bolt is mounted the rear end of the latchrod M. The forward end of this latch-rod is connected to the rear end of a latch or sliding bolt, N, mounted in a keeper, 0, on the bottom rail of the gate, and normally engaging a pin in the bifurcation of the post A. This latch or bolt is helld normally projected into the bifurcation of this post by a coiled spring having its opposite ends secured, respectively, to the front end bar of the gate and the latch.

In the upper portion of the gate, near the free or front end of the same,l form the curved notch or open-ended slot Q, to permit the gate to swing past the cross-bar F when raised, as will be readily understood on reference to Fig. 2.

The construction of my device being thus made known, the operation of the same is thought to be obvious. When it is desired to raise or open the gate,the operator pulls downward on the lever adjacent to him, thus causing the inner end of the lever to which it is attached to swing upward. An upward movement is thus given to the connecting-rod, thereby oscillating the angle-levers and witl1= drawing the latch. As the operator continues to pull downward on the lever-handle the gate will be raised and swing into the position shown in dotted lines in Fig. 2. The operator then passes through the gateway and closes the gate by pushing upward on the remaining lever-handle, the spring connected to the latch forcing it automatically into locking position. It will thus be seen that I have provided a gate which is simple in construction and easy and efficient in operation.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, 1s-

1. The combination of the posts B B, the bifurcated post A, the gate pivoted at one end between the lower portions of the posts B B, and having a curved notch in its upper portion near its front end, the cross-bar secured. to the upper portions of the posts B B, and the levers fulcrumed on said bar and connected to the gate to operate the same, as set forth.

The combination of the posts B B, the

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gate pivoted thereto having the curved slot Q, the crossbar secured to said posts near the upper ends of the same, the keepers secured to said posts, the levers pivoted on the crossbar and playing in said keepers, and the connecting-rods between the said levers and the gate, as set forth.

3. The combination of the posts A l3 B, the gate pivoted to the postsv B 13, having the curved slot Q, and adapted to rest in the post A, the latch mounted on the under edge of the bottom rail of the gate, the angle-levers pivotcd on the opposite sides of the bottom rail of the gate, the rod M, connecting said levers with the latch, the operating-levers supported by the posts B 13 above the gate and on opposite sides of the same, and the connecting-rods between said levers and the angle levers, as set forth.

4. The combination of the bifurcated post A, the gate adapted to rest in said post, the hanger O, secured to the bottom rail of the gate and depending therefrom,the latch mounted in said hanger and engaging the post, the coiled spring having its opposite ends secured, respectively, to the latch and the front end bar of the gate, and means for releasing the latch, as set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixed my signature in pres- 3o ence of two witnesses.

HERBERT CALEB OHIVERS.

Vitnesses:

J. W. MOCLURE, CALEB OHIVERS. 

